Word: fined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME prints letters just as they are received, does not "doctor" them (except to omit those portions which are irrelevant, prolix), does not respell them. The sincerity of Farmer Crane's letter spoke for itself-spoke far more eloquently than could fine phrases, fancy spellings...
True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
Tatjana. The German film company, Ufa, has won merited praise in the U. S. for its fine films. This is one of its worst. The aimless story concerns a Russian prince, his princess, Tatjana, and his ingrate prot...
...call themselves the Art Cinema League. The tiny, tastefully decorated cinema house, resurrected from a onetime livery stable is dedicated to "the intellect and the esthetic emotions rather than the cheap sentimentalities and banal melodramatics." Said a critic: "If the first program does not live up to these fine pretensions, there is at least enough stray beauty to justify this lone exploiter of intelligent pictures...
...Woolf is the youngest daughter of the late Sir Leslie Stephen. She married Leonard Sidney Woolf, literary Editor of the Nation and Athenaeum, in 1912. They live at Hogarth House, an old place in Richmond, spending their quiet time alike at gardening and fine writing and printing...